SelesnyaLegendary Creature — Cat ArtificerNazahn, Revered Bladesmith
Mana value6Rank#12,917
The Commander
When Nazahn enters, search your library for an Equipment card and reveal it. If you reveal a card named Hammer of Nazahn this way, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand. Then shuffle.
Whenever an equipped creature you control attacks, you may tap target creature defending player controls.
Guide
Gameplan
Nazahn tutors up an Equipment on entry (ideally Hammer of Nazahn for free) and turns your creatures into oversized, well-armored threats. You suit up Nazahn or other beaters, tap down blockers when you attack, and crash in for lethal commander or combat damage.
Strengths
- Built-in Equipment tutor every cast gives consistency and recovery from removal
- Free attack-trigger tapdown removes blockers and enables aggressive swings
- Hammer of Nazahn grants indestructible and free equip, protecting your board and saving mana
- GW gives strong ramp, tutoring (Steelshaper's Gift, Stoneforge Mystic), and recursion
Weaknesses
- Equipment-reliant strategy folds to artifact wipes and board sweepers
- Six-mana commander that does little until you also have a creature and Equipment online
- Removal-heavy decks can repeatedly kill your carrier and reset your investment
- Lacks card advantage and interaction outside of combat-focused tools
Key Cards
- Hammer of Nazahn — The signature payoff—comes in free off the ETB and gives all your Equipment free equip plus indestructibility.
- Stoneforge Mystic — Cheats out big Equipment and tutors, accelerating the gameplan dramatically.
- Sword of Feast and Famine — Untaps your lands for explosive double-spell turns while protecting and pumping your carrier.
- Puresteel Paladin — Free equips with metalcraft plus card draw turns your Equipment glut into engine pieces.
- Sigarda's Aid — Flash in Equipment and attach for free at instant speed, ambushing attackers and saving creatures.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and ramp (Sol Ring, Smothering Tithe) plus more tutors like Steelshaper's Gift and Open the Armory to find Hammer reliably. Layer in protection (Swiftfoot Boots, Lightning Greaves) and recursion (Brought Back, Hall of Heliod's Generosity) to grind through removal. For top-end, lean on extra-combat effects and Embercleave-style finishers, or pivot toward a Worldslayer reset combo for a hard lock.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
Archetypes
- Voltron — Nazahn loads a single creature with Equipment and taps blockers to push commander damage.
- Equipment Aggro — His tutor and free-equip enablers let a wide board of equipped creatures swing efficiently.
- Stax-lite Combat — The repeated tapdown trigger pseudo-locks opposing blockers and key creatures each combat.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GW), by popularity.
